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Playing both sides of the U.S.-China AI “Cold War”
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Saudi Arabia celebrated the launch of what it calls the world’s most advanced Arabic-language AI model earlier this month.
Key facts
- In August, Brazil announced an investment worth roughly $444 million into AI, which it effectively divided between Chinese and American technologies
- For most countries, technological sovereignty does not mean building an entire AI stack at home, Jesse Marks, a China-Middle East research scholar at the Australian National University, told Rest
- From Latin America to Southeast and Central Asia, countries are buying American chips while adopting Chinese open-source models, splitting key AI projects between companies from two AI superpowers — It has also joined China’s World Artificial Intelligence Cooperation Organization, or WAICO, which focuses on cooperation on AI development and governance
Summary
The Arabic model, Humain-m3, is based on an open-source system from Chinese startup MiniMax. Saudi Arabia is not alone. “Many countries around the world, particularly in the Global South, want the best of both worlds,” Kyle Chan, a fellow at the John L. In August, Brazil announced an investment worth roughly $444 million into AI, which it effectively divided between Chinese and American technologies.